On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Josh Boyer <jwboyer <at> gmail.com> writes: >> Yes. It was decided to leave the removal, and to also remove TAG_OPTS=-F. > > Yet another abuse of power by FESCo. Why can't FESCo listen to the many > developers who objected to the removal here, including developers like Dave > Jones and Rex Dieter who are experienced Fedora packagers and do much of the > actual packaging work in Fedora (Dave Jones is the primary maintainer of the > kernel, Rex Dieter is #4 in number of builds per packager)? Why can't the > decision be left to the people who are actually affected by the change, i.e. > the packagers? FESCo is supposed to represent the interests of the packagers > (that's what they're elected for), not their own, too bad they actually do the > latter. Basically because the only argument for keeping "make force-tag" wasn't a technical one. There's a need to ensure that a tag points to the exact source that was used to build a package. Disallowing force-tag is the easiest way to do that. Creating some hack that checks with koji to see if there's a successful build associated with a tag before allowing a force-tag operation to success sounds like a recipe for really slow and expensive CVS operations. >> The decision was not unanimous. > > Nice to see there were at least some sane people left... Agreed :) -- Jeff Ollie "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
